Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-03
THE CONSTITUTIONS CENTENNIAL

1t is gratifying to learn that the out
look for the proper observance of the
Constitutional Centennial is good, and
that this anniversary will be honored to
it, merit. In December, 1886, the Con-
stitutional Centennial Commission was or
gained at Philadelphia by Commissioners
appointed by the States and Territories,
for the purpose of providing for the cele-
bration of the centennial anniversary of
the framing and PRONUNCIATION Of the Fed
eral Constitution.
1t has been arranged that there shall be
an Grafton and poem in commemoration of
the signing of the charter of the Union
There is also to be military display, in
which the Government will have every
branch OF its military and naval service,
represented, and every State and Territory
has been invited to be represented by its
military service. There is to be an in
dustrial professional display. Invitations
will be sent to all Governors, Supreme
Judges, and Legislatures of States and
Territories, to the President and the
Cabinet, to all representatives of foreign
Governments in the United States, and to
all civic associations in the Union. There
is to be created a suitable memorial in
Philadelphia commemorative of the sign
ing.
From the programme mapped out by
the Convention appointed by Governors,
and which assembled in Philadelphia as
stated in 1886, we learn of these features
of the celebration which is to be held in
Philadelphia on the 18th of next month.
1t viii be an occasion of the first moment,
but connected with it Californians will ex-
perience one regret, that their State will
not be properly represented, if at all. No
suitable provision has been made, and
neither civic nor military body, executive,
judicial or legislative representation will
be in attendance from this State
The first celebration in honor of both
the Y alton of Independence and the
establishment of the Constitution, was held
in July, 1873, at Philadelphia, and it was
one of the most marked and impressive
ceremonials in the history of the nation.
The procession was composed of thirty
three divisions, and more than a third of
them were dramatically symbolic of events
in the history of the country. OF course
the celebration of next month must surpass
that Of 1888, of which Francis Hopkinson
wrote: 1T was an exhibition which for
novelty, spiendor and decornfn justly mer-
tied universal admiration and applause"
To this latest-and to our discredit be it
said, only the second observance of an an
niversary of the laying of the foundations
of the governmental system of the Re
public-Pennsylvania has appropriated
$4,000; citizens of Philadelphia, $4,000;
Connecticut, $4,000; Rhode Island, 81, 800;
Delaware, $1,000; Massachusetts,, $4,000.
The sum will warrant not so large dis
play as the Importance of the event de-
mands, but with the troops from many
States, and the civic and industrial, and
the naval and United States military dis
play, and the efforts by the citizens of
Philadelphia, we may expect celebration
of which we will not be ashamed, though
we are justified in the regret that greater
interest has not been taken in the matter
by all Il e States, for unfortunately some
have taken no action whatever. and Cali
fornia is Of that number